Family Site of Jenny & Aaron

 

	Sara Nir

Aunt Sara was born in 1911, in Ankara, Turkey, to Aaron and Ester Arav. She married Haim (Vitali) Abravanel. In 1934, they had to change their family name to Sunarlı (a Turkish word). They had four children: Yaakov, Ester, Levana and Carmela (Levana and Carmela are twins).   The family emigrated to Eretz-Israel in 1943.   In about 1970, the family changed the family name to Nir (a Hebrew word). Aunt Sara was widowed in 1981, when uncle Haim passed away.   She died on May 15, 2007, in Ramat Eliyau, Israel.